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It is early in the seventeen eighties

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and the rugged by Tory
long known to scouts

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and survey ours is attracting increasing
numbers of settlers from the east along

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the wilderness road they come families where
they're an electronic Northwest behind

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them. The struggles of the
Revolutionary War are before them.

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The Conquest of the wilderness.

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A journey is long and argue less but it
leads to a land of promise and for wealth

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or Taylor and his friend George
Simmons. That is enough.

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These men have fought for freedom.
They intend to make it real.

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A purpose fully shared by
Mrs Taylor and Mrs Emmons.

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Women of the dauntless courage.

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Day after day the party
follows the unfamiliar trail.

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Sometimes crossing the beds of streams
carved through Kentucky limestone streams

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bordered by forests of cherry
walnut Hickory and of.

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And there's many a hill to climb in the
course of the weeks of travel streams heels

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and farce the trail of the wilderness road

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and more than physical
hardship lies along the way.

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Here Taylor and salmons catch sight
of Graham reminders of mind of danger

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and overturned and abandoned cattle
means but one thing Indians.

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Nearby as per their evidence of the
swift and tragic raid. I woman choose.

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And the child's money.

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Not all who travel the wilderness
road survive but the fate

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that has fallen to others does not
discourage these determined pioneers they

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salvaged the abandoned cattle impress
on them knowing well the danger

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that surrounds them but feeling
a confidence. One of courage.

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Some of the long days passed on the mark.

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Well the evenings bring promises for
the night in camps beside the trail.

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Finally several days later the party
have reached the bluegrass country.

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Not far away is their destination. A
fort called ahead of the station's.

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Since seven hundred seventy five an outpost
of the frontier here keen eyed sentries

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keep a constant watch ever on the
lookout for signs of hostile Indians.

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Within the fort enclosure lives a small
community of settlers some of them

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permanent residents others
temporary visitors.

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All of them busily engaged with the task
of the front here now from his post the

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center catches sight of the group of new
arrivals they will be more than welcome

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here at Harrods stations newcomers to the
front tier means so many more strong arms

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a skilled in the use of rifles.

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So many more stout hearts to aid
in the winning of the wilderness.

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And to the travelers arrival at the fort
means they often dreamed of the end of a

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long wearisome and dangerous journey.

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Little wonder that there is rejoicing
all around as photograph letters

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and newcomers greet each other.

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The people of the fort community know all
too well what the long trek from Virginia

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has meant it could be long they too came
over the wilderness road. Not so long ago.

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A common purpose on a common
fate unites the pioneers.

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During their stay at the ford the Taylors
share the cabin of the country's brands

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known in Virginia household
Times Square like wife Sherry

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and as Mrs Carter Tanzer baby boy.

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Mrs Taylor busied herself with the cooking
by little Mary Carter wines balls of

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rags for weaving.

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At the thought spring Ruth Taylor filled
a wooden water bucket nearby her brother

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John milks the family counselor kept
inside the Ford enclosure along with other

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members of the forts animal population ighly
prized possessions of the little from

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here community. So life at the for
what goes on but past for each

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and for all.

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Life from what actually is it laboriously
stirred into an iron kettle of boiling

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animal fat. That's it.

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Prepared the SO that is
needed for laundering clothes

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and for other household uses at the shop
of the fort carpenter water tailors host

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Mr Carter

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and showing them the tools they can obtain
here to equip themselves for farming a

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good strong plough shaped by
the carpenter skilled hands.

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Hands now engaged in fashioning
household furniture.

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Abroad acts will be needed for healing
the timbers for floors for tables

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and for benches.

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Yes the carpenter just now completing
a stool for a four household.

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And readily supply a
number of tailors needs.

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He has helped equip many a front here is
not known to locate tellers farms I will

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take all Jim Bradley with us.

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He knows this territory

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but in any man in the fort how the
land around here Mr Bradley right

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now is just ahead. If a man plants the
land in corn and takes good care of it.

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You get a hundred bushel to the acre
with middling care you get seventy five

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and if you don't plant it
all. He'll still get fifty.

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They say at the fort that sometimes Jim
Bradley does exaggerate just a little.

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But he scouted this territory years ago.
And he knows every hill and STREAM.

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In the busy life of the fort schooling
for the children is not neglected a clay

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floored cabin serves as a classroom where
elementary lessons are provided for

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youngsters of widely varying
ages. But the letter is say.

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A Now Brother letter.

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But first the aide drawn with
charcoal must be erased.

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Perhaps the next letter
will not be quite so easy.

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What letter he thing seems to
be a difference of opinion.

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Meanwhile in the Carter cabin
household tasks proceed.

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Mrs Carter is busy at her loom weaving
cross strips into floor mats.

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But Mrs Taylor takes up a kettle of melted
tallow from before the cooking fire down

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low.

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She uses for pouring candles in a metal
mold we all need those candles the big dome

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Saturday night. They'll be ready.

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Yes the candles will be needed Saturday
night on Saturday night they are ready.

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The candles are ready.

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The chickens extends to
the corn into ones to

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the right.

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Stranger by their median the amount
you're looking to ask them cater to take.

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Ramos.

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The days go by

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and soon Taylor is felling trees
from his own land for his own cabin.

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As the trees are failing.
John carefully trim of them.

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While Nearby Friends proceed with the work
of fitting trim logs into the rapidly

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growing cabin. And as new
logs are made ready.

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They are carried to the builders while
Henry the faithful tailor slave.

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Continues with the tree cutting. Yes.

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Taylor owns land now one hundred seventy
acres and soon he will have a new home.

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But before the cabin is finished the walls
must be carefully Chink with chips of

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wood and good firm clay.

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With this task to friends hell.

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As the cabin nears completion

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and they begins ploughing the Taylor land
in preparation for the planting of the

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first corn crop the plough is new to this
island it bring the promise of a richer.

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Freer life.

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At last the day arrives

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when the tailors are ready to leave the
temporary haven of the for those families

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themselves in their new frontier
home. They go forth alone.

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But they travel toward the
freedom that is their goal.

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Darkness is beginning to
envelop the Kentucky hills

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and forests as a painter is complete
their journey. But now they are home.

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They are on land that is
theirs and theirs alone

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and with the land a man can be free.

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Presently as the smoke from their fireplace
rises against the evening sky the

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tailors proud and so.

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Killer in their pioneer face to face
the radiant West that beckons still.

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If things don't go right. We can always
move on. Let's not think about that.

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Not yet. No but it's good to know
they'll always be freedom out there.

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Freedom. Out there all.